{"id":121822,"date":"2025-02-07T03:31:47","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T08:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangeslices.ai\/?p=121822"},"modified":"2025-02-14T10:35:27","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T15:35:27","slug":"keys-to-career-change-insights-for-federal-leaders-with-sean-kelley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangeslices.ai\/keys-to-career-change-insights-for-federal-leaders-with-sean-kelley\/","title":{"rendered":"Keys to Career Change: Insights for Federal Leaders with Sean Kelley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Transitioning from government to industry? Join David Blackburn as he chats with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/sean-k-69081a5\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sean Kelley<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Principal and Health Portfolio Executive at Connsci, about navigating the journey from public service to the private sector. With experience as a former CISO at EPA and Deputy CIO at the VA, Sean shares invaluable advice for federal leaders considering a career change. From building community connections to balancing patience with ambition, Sean reveals the keys to a successful transition\u2014and the pitfalls to avoid. Whether you&#8217;re eyeing a big firm, a small business, or even consulting, this episode is packed with actionable insights to help you make your &#8220;next act&#8221; a success.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: none; min-width: min(100%, 430px); height: 315px;\" title=\"Keys to Career Change: Insights for Federal Leaders with Sean Kelley\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/player-v2\/?i=e2b84-17da897-pb&amp;from=pb6admin&amp;pbad=0&amp;share=1&amp;download=1&amp;rtl=0&amp;fonts=Arial&amp;skin=1b1b1b&amp;font-color=auto&amp;logo_link=episode_page&amp;btn-skin=3267a3&amp;size=315\" width=\"100%\" height=\"315\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To connect with Sean, visit him on LinkedIn <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/sean-k-69081a5\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Learn more about Connsci by visiting their webpage <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/connsci.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/from-public-service-private-enterprise-navigating-military-kelley-9n2ze?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_ios&amp;utm_campaign=share_via\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Click here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for a look at the blog post referenced during the interview.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transitioning from government to industry? Join David Blackburn as he chats with Sean Kelley, Principal and Health Portfolio Executive at Connsci, about navigating the journey from public service to the private sector. With experience as a former CISO at EPA and Deputy CIO at the VA, Sean shares invaluable advice for federal leaders considering a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4830,"featured_media":121825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[459686,850984],"tags":[852561],"class_list":["post-121822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-interview","category-podcasts","tag-fed-perspectives"],"acf":{"uuid":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news-cdn.orangeslices.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/30102702\/Dave-Sean-Kelley.png","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2025-03-23 17:45:43","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangeslices.ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangeslices.ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangeslices.ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangeslices.ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4830"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangeslices.ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121822"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangeslices.ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122474,"href":"https:\/\/orangeslices.ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121822\/revisions\/122474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangeslices.ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangeslices.ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangeslices.ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangeslices.ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}